Limited Resources: DII Draft #8

I’ve had someone get all mad at me in almost the exact same way when I played a “janky” deck. Believe it was a gnaw to the bone deck too. People that say things like “play a real deck” are really immature. It’s obviously a real deck if it wins. I hate losers like that on mtgo. I would have called him out.

Man, forcing a shaky archtype that is fringe playable when *amazing* cards from better archtypes get passed to you is tough, and this draft demonstrated the great risk involved in forcing. watching this draft was activley painful to me, and I didn’t evn play in it! great power of will, Marshall. I could never have done this.

Omg, I loved it. I’ve never seen helvault in play. Very cool and I am so glad you chose to go. A different route. I watch an unhealthy amount of drafts and it gets annoying to see the same basic decks played again and again.

Yup just like you’ve said it: the one time you’re not gonna draft white you get passed all those cards..
Love your videos keep em coming

I like that you tried to do something different here. I think it takes a lot of skill to force a fringe archetype and actually come out with a good deck. I’ve had drafts where I said to myself, I just want a sweet archetype (like burning vengeance, for instance) and if I see one of these build around me cards, I’m going to take it. Never fails that the drafts I decide to do that I am passing great cards in other colors, cards that I never see when I actually try to just draft a good deck.
I’ve learned that I’m not a good enough drafter to force such narrow archetypes. If they are open, I’ll go into them and pick up the cards that are available late that no one else wants. But, I won’t pass good cards in a more boring deck early in the draft just for the sake of drafting a particular archetype.

Part of the problem with your deck is that the cards don’t mesh well together. Not really your fault since you weren’t seeing the commons that would’ve been good in your deck. But, your green 2 drops really don’t go well with the deck. You needed armored skaabs (which I understand you never saw) and fortress crab and just things that will hold the ground. Even the headless skaab is not idea since it exiles a creature from your graveyard. I believe your main deck had only 12 creatures which is too low to make gnaw to the bone or spider spawning worthwhile.

I do like that you got your opponent so good in round 1 with the hellvault. I’ve never been fortunate enough to abuse that card. Honestly, he had some good cards, but his deck was slow and expensive and he fully deserved to lose those games. If he had a good, fast, beatdown deck, the hellvault would not have beaten him. Your round 2 opponent would probably have been a bad matchup for him as well, because his deck is too slow.

Keep the good work with the videos!

“I’m not gonna lie, this deck is… pretty suspect” I rofled

Wow! That round 2 deck was insane. Almost all vampires with the lord and premium removal.

You missed the Evolving Wilds…

Hi – thanks for the draft, just one quick thing I’d like to point out. R2G1, you might as well pump your darkthicket wolf during his upkeep. You’re going to pump anyways, but that plays around volley and fires, and he has to 1-for-2 himself to kill your wolf.